Burial-case corner



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- G. W. GOMEE.

BURIAL CASE CORNER- NOQ 265,022.

Patented Sept. 26, 18812.

ATTORNEYS.

-' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. GOMEE, OF WASEGA, MINNESOTA.

BURlAL-CASE CORNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 265,022, dated September 26, 1882.

Application filed June so, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similarletters of reference indicate cor-.

responding parts in both the figures.

Figure l is a perspective view of my new and improved burial-case, and Fig. 2 is a detailed sectional plan view ot'one of the corners of the case.

A A represent the side pieces, and B B the end pieces,of the case, which are of wood, and D D represent plates of sheet metal, which unite the side and end pieces at the corners, as

shown. The ends or edges of the side and end pieces to be united in this manner are first formed with the tapering or dovetailed groove a, as shown in Fig. 2. The edges of the corners D are first folded or lapped over, as shown atb b. These folded edges are then slipped into the grooves a a and then the rods or pins d d are forced down between the laps b b and the main parts of the sheets of metal, which swell or force apart the folded edges of the sheets and cause them to fill the grooves a a,

' and thus securely lock the plates in the grooves.

Inside of the plates D are placed the cornerblocks E E, which fill out the case upon the inside at the corners and cover the metal, as shown clearlyin the drawings.

The bottom F is cut off at the corners and fitted between the lower edges of the side and end pieces and lower ends of the corner-blocks, and secured in place by gluing, or with nails or screws, in the ordinary manner.

A burial case constructed in this manner is very strong, and is thus made with rounded ornamental corners at comparatively small cost.

I am aware that the employment of rounded corner-pieces for coffins, secured to the ends and sides of the latter, is old, as is also the employment of'cast-metal corner-pieces havin g enlargements at their vertical edges fitting in grooves in the sides and ends of the coffins.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- In a burial-case, the combination, with the sides A A and the ends 13, provided with tapering grooves a a and the blocks E, of the corner-plates D, having their vertical edges formed into loops or eyes inserted into the grooves a of the ends and sides, and the rods or pins d d, forced into the eyes or loops of the corner-plates D, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

GEORGE W. GOMEE.

Witnesses J. L. CLAYHORN, WARREN SMITH. 

